This work brings together seminal articles by geographer David Harvey, published over three decades, on the tensions between geographical knowledge and political power and on the capitalist production of space. It reprints classic essays such as "On the history and present condition of geography", "The geography of capitalist accumulation" and "the spatial fix: Hegel, von thunen, and Marx". Two additional chapters represent the author's most recent thinking on cartographic identities and social movements.
This work brings together seminal articles by geographer David Harvey, published over three decades, on the tensions between geographical knowledge and political power and on the capitalist production of space. It reprints classic essays such as "On the history and present condition of geography", "The geography of capitalist accumulation" and "the spatial fix: Hegel, von thunen, and Marx". Two additional chapters represent the author's most recent thinking on cartographic identities and social movements.
David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University and adjunct Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He was previously Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His books include Social Justice and the City (1973); The Limits to Capital (1982); The Urban Experience (1988); The Condition of Postmodernity (1989); and Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (1996). He received the Outstanding Contributor award from the Association of American Geographers in 1980; the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1989; the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and the Vautrin Lud Prize in France in 1995.
Harvey (anthropology, CUNY Graduate Sch.) is one of the most influential geographers of the later 20th century, especially as concerns the relationship among politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. His previous and still cogent works include Explanation in Geography, Social Justice and the City, and Spaces of Hope. His new book provides the daring reader with an introduction to fields of inquiry collectively termed the new geography or critical geography. Harvey delves deeply into the collective psyche of geography as a discipline and attacks long-held assumptions of scientific neutrality within it, particularly in the chapter titled "Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science." He also gives a chronology of his own geographic thought and his philosophical underpinnings such as Hegel, Marx, Kant, Heidegger, and the like and a unique perspective on capitalism as a driving force in shaping the physical arrangement of societies. Most geographers may take much of this book as an indictment against their chosen field, but Harvey certainly gives us much to consider. Appropriate for larger public libraries and academic libraries. John E. Dockall, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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